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THE ART OF REARING 
manner it can be executed with ease and promp- 
titude. 
The strips into which are arranged the silk- 
worms upon the hurdles, should occupy about 
half the space of them. I mentioned that the 
worms that are to occupy 174 feet of hurdles 
must be placed in the middle of a space of about 
412 feet six inches square. 
When all the silk-worms that are revived have 
been successively removed, there remain still some 
torpid upon the 174 feet of hurdle, torpid, or 
being just roused, that have not the strength to 
climb upon the shoots or branches of leaves. 
The early-roused worms being removed into 
the great laboratory, it will be seen that they 
have eaten all the leaves on the young shoots and 
bunches of leaves that served to carry them, and 
that they remain without food upon the paper. 
They should then be given 30 pounds of leaves 
chopjied a little ; with these leaves, the intervals 
between the young shoots should be filled, and 
form the strips into regular order, by sweeping 
into their place any boughs or leaves that are 
scattered irregularly, with the broom made for 
this purpose. 
After this second meal, those worms that were 
heaped up together will be seen stretching out 
evenly. 
The other 30 pounds of leaves should not be 
